What Kind of Music Y'all Listen To?
- Thread starter Phil Owl
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Anything and everything, Phil, depending on the mood.
C&W when I'm feeling sentimental
R&B from the sixties when I'm feeling happy
Smooth jazz when I'm feeling mellow
Classical when I want to baffle my coworkers (What!?!) a black woman listening to classical?!?)
Salsa or reggae when I feel like moving my hips
Rock when I feel like singing along really loud while playing air guitar
Blues when I'm down and need catharsis
and the list goes on ....
I guess the answer is that music helps me build a mood, maintain a mood, or change my mood.
C&W when I'm feeling sentimental
R&B from the sixties when I'm feeling happy
Smooth jazz when I'm feeling mellow
Classical when I want to baffle my coworkers (What!?!) a black woman listening to classical?!?)
Salsa or reggae when I feel like moving my hips
Rock when I feel like singing along really loud while playing air guitar
Blues when I'm down and need catharsis
and the list goes on ....
I guess the answer is that music helps me build a mood, maintain a mood, or change my mood.
borikensalsero
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I'm strating to think salsa has taken over my body. I don't listen to anything but salsa and anything that sounds like it. Guajira, son montuno, son, etc. I spend all day listening to salsa, when I buy a CD, it is salsa, when I'm on my way to a club I play salsa. When I leave the club I search my CDs for songs they didn't play at the club and I wanted to hear. At work my CD player always has a salsa CD in it. I spend my time making salsa song selections which complement the mood I'm in. I.E. Happy songs, love songs, fast songs, slow songs, cut your veins songs, old songs, new songs... :shock: HELP!! I tell people that I listen to all type of music, and when they say no you don't. I replay with, I listen to old, new, fast, slow salsa... 
Swing Kitten
New Member
My favorite is Big Band swing but I also have some pretty ecclectic tastes. I enjoy songs from the 20's through the 70's. Right now, I have a Cajun/Zydeco CD in the player at home. I enjoy Klezmer!! I really enjoy Dixie-Frielich .. it's a mix between klezmer and jazz-- a lot of the songs are too fast to dance to but it's great as a soundscape for work! I even a CD of bagpipe music (Pipeband Spectacular Vol. 2)-- I can't listen to the whole thing at once though.
Swing Kitten
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pygmalion said:
:?: :?: :?: How is that baffling?
You'd be surprised, Swing Kitten. People are so strange, and many think that everybody fits into predefined boxes. Black woman and R&B go together. And it's not just non-Black people who think that way. Some of us think that way too.
You'd be shocked at some of the reactions I've gotten to my ballroom dancing. Honestly, people think I'm nuts, and that ballroom is for white people. To which my response is :tongue: . I listen to, and dance, whatever I like. So there!
You'd be shocked at some of the reactions I've gotten to my ballroom dancing. Honestly, people think I'm nuts, and that ballroom is for white people. To which my response is :tongue: . I listen to, and dance, whatever I like. So there!
Swing Kitten
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pygmalion said:
Go YOU!! That is so rediculous.
Danish Guy
New Member
Mostly rock music.
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath
Whitesnake
Fish
Marillion
and the quiet things like
Blackmores Night
Sorten Muld
Sky
Still getting use to the Salsa stuff.
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath
Whitesnake
Fish
Marillion
and the quiet things like
Blackmores Night
Sorten Muld
Sky
Still getting use to the Salsa stuff.
Hey Danish Guy! (John)
So how do you feel about Genesis? Not the later-day, pop stuff. Yuck to that! The earlier (70's to mid-80's) rock.
Best concert I ever saw. I think it was about 1988 or 1989. They were doing this big stadium tour around the world. Oh my goodness! The varilite light show! Wow! and the music. Even from FAR away, you could feel it. Those guys are REAL musicians, in my opinion. Do you like them, too? (Disclaimer: Anything recent involving Phil Collins solo, thumbs down. :lol: )
So how do you feel about Genesis? Not the later-day, pop stuff. Yuck to that! The earlier (70's to mid-80's) rock.
Best concert I ever saw. I think it was about 1988 or 1989. They were doing this big stadium tour around the world. Oh my goodness! The varilite light show! Wow! and the music. Even from FAR away, you could feel it. Those guys are REAL musicians, in my opinion. Do you like them, too? (Disclaimer: Anything recent involving Phil Collins solo, thumbs down. :lol: )
Nope. I take that back. The best concert I ever saw was Eric Clapton, when he was touring with Stevie Ray Vaughn (the summer SRV died).
Eric Clapton has unbelievable stage presence. I saw him in a basketball arena, and when he walked on the stage, all 20000 people there, went silent. Powerful!
Eric Clapton has unbelievable stage presence. I saw him in a basketball arena, and when he walked on the stage, all 20000 people there, went silent. Powerful!
Danish Guy
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pygmalion said:
Genesis has made many great things. Actually Marillion with Fish in front is often compared to the old Genesis stuff. I got the Genesis double cd "The Lamb lies down on Broadway" (playing now), but I favour Marillion. I have seen Fish in concert many times, but never Genesis or Marillion. The lyrics with some "meat" on Genesis was known for is definitely picked up by Marillion with the Fish in front.
Check out the 4 concept albums by Marillion.
“Script for a Jester Tear”
“Fugazi”
“Misplaced Childhood” (With the major 1985 hit “Kayleigh”)
“Clutching At Straws”
One of my friends from Copenhagen was at the concert there. After about 45 minutes of playtime, Fish told they would play the last number for tonight, and then presented “Misplaced Childhood”. They haven’t played any numbers from the new record, not even “Kayleigh”. There isn’t a number called “Misplaced Childhood” on the record, and when they started playing “Pseudo Silk Kimono” the fans knew they would use the next 50+ minutes to play the album from start till end. Including the extra numbers afterwards nobody was cheated. Hear them live on the double album “The Thieving Magpie”
Danish Guy
New Member
It’s live and on stage, the talent is shown. And that go for all kinds of music.
Everything is possible in a studio, with money and promotion. But out live, you realize if the musicians can play, the singers sing, and the bands perform with the audience.
My best concert was with Ian Gillan, after he was thrown out of Deep Purple for the second time. I saw him a year or two before in a totally sold out show in a stadium hall in Denmark. Great concert by the way. But solo as Gillan, presenting the “Toolbox” album, with 3 other musicians in a little club with the around 100 fans there was room for, that was absolutely fantastic. The stage made of wood plates mounted on empty beer boxes. The look on the bass player bending he’s knees, and then realise he couldn’t jump, without hurting his head on the ceiling. These talented guys playing this little place, not to be rich, but because the wanted to play and entertain. That will be hard to beat.
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Everything is possible in a studio, with money and promotion. But out live, you realize if the musicians can play, the singers sing, and the bands perform with the audience.
My best concert was with Ian Gillan, after he was thrown out of Deep Purple for the second time. I saw him a year or two before in a totally sold out show in a stadium hall in Denmark. Great concert by the way. But solo as Gillan, presenting the “Toolbox” album, with 3 other musicians in a little club with the around 100 fans there was room for, that was absolutely fantastic. The stage made of wood plates mounted on empty beer boxes. The look on the bass player bending he’s knees, and then realise he couldn’t jump, without hurting his head on the ceiling. These talented guys playing this little place, not to be rich, but because the wanted to play and entertain. That will be hard to beat.
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Yes, John. The truth about a group's musicality really shows live in concert. There's no hiding behind technology there.
I'm going to check out Marillion, because if there's any comparison to the old Genesis, I've gotta try it.
The first time I heard anything by Genesis was on an episode of Magnum PI. Mama. And I went out the next day and bought the "Genesis" album (still on vinyl then). Since then, I've collected every album they made, until that debacle in the mid-eighties somewhere. When they switched over to wimpy pop music. Yuck!
So, like I said, if Marillion's anything like that, they may have a new fan in the making. Thanks for the tip!
I LOVE this forum.
Jenn
I'm going to check out Marillion, because if there's any comparison to the old Genesis, I've gotta try it.
The first time I heard anything by Genesis was on an episode of Magnum PI. Mama. And I went out the next day and bought the "Genesis" album (still on vinyl then). Since then, I've collected every album they made, until that debacle in the mid-eighties somewhere. When they switched over to wimpy pop music. Yuck!
So, like I said, if Marillion's anything like that, they may have a new fan in the making. Thanks for the tip!
I LOVE this forum.
Jenn
dancer at heart
New Member
I used to listen to mostly classicals, goa or trance techno music. Pure music notes seems to take my spirit places whether it be a land of peace of one that is completely psychodelic...
however, now, lik borikensalsero, I listen to nothing but salsa...cuban salsa, romantic salsa, african cuban.....you name it, it's all salsa. I got to a point where I can even sing to some of the songs when I do not even speak a single word of spanish... people have asked me if I ever get bored with it, and frankly, the more I listen to it, the more hooked I get....:wink:
however, now, lik borikensalsero, I listen to nothing but salsa...cuban salsa, romantic salsa, african cuban.....you name it, it's all salsa. I got to a point where I can even sing to some of the songs when I do not even speak a single word of spanish... people have asked me if I ever get bored with it, and frankly, the more I listen to it, the more hooked I get....:wink: